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title: "Getting started - Charted wiki"
description: "Install Charted, pick how much the minimap shows, and find your way around."
url: https://voxelsprout.com/charted/wiki/getting-started
---

[Charted](https://voxelsprout.com/charted) [Wiki](https://voxelsprout.com/charted/wiki)Getting started

# Getting started

Install Charted, pick how much the minimap shows, and find your way around.

## What you need

| Minecraft         | Loader                                                                                      |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 26.1, 26.2, 26.3  | Fabric with [Fabric API](https://modrinth.com/mod/fabric-api), or NeoForge 26.1.2 and newer |
| 1.21.1 to 1.21.11 | Fabric with Fabric API                                                                      |

* Nothing on the server. Charted works on vanilla servers and Realms.
* [Mod Menu](https://modrinth.com/mod/modmenu) is optional on Fabric: it puts the settings in the mod list. `/charted config` opens them without it.
* Each Minecraft version and loader has a file of its own; take the one for yours.
* In English, Dutch, French, German and Russian: every screen, setting and message. Charted follows the game's language.

## Install

1. Install Fabric Loader or NeoForge for your Minecraft version.
2. Download Charted from [Modrinth](https://modrinth.com/mod/charted-minimap) or [CurseForge](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/charted-minimap): the file for your Minecraft version and loader. On Fabric, download Fabric API too.
3. Put the files in the `mods` folder of your Minecraft folder and start the game.
4. Join a world. The minimap is in the top corner, and the walkthrough opens.

## The walkthrough

The first time you join a world, Charted asks how you like to play, a page at a time, and shows each answer on your own minimap as you pick:

[![The first-start walkthrough, asking how much the minimap should show](https://voxelsprout.com/media/charted/walkthrough.webp)](https://voxelsprout.com/media/charted/walkthrough.webp)
1. **Welcome to Charted**: how much the minimap shows. Pick a preset below, or **As I have it** to keep your own mix.
2. **How the map looks**: Satellite, Atlas or Minecraft, on your own map as you explored it so far.
3. **The minimap**: **Turns with me** or **North up**, and the keys to zoom and enlarge it.
4. **What's around you**: players, mobs and caves on your maps.
5. **Waypoints**: how to mark a place, and what Charted marks for you.
6. **Your waypoints from other map mods**: shown when Charted finds waypoints of Xaero's Minimap or JourneyMap on your computer. **Bring them over** does it.
7. **You're set**: your keys, to change right there.

The walkthrough is shared with the other VoxelSprout mods you have. `/charted onboarding` opens it again.

## Presets

Four starting points, in the walkthrough and under **Presets** in the settings. Each sets the lines under the minimap, the radar and cave view; everything stays changeable after.

Simple: The map and your coordinates, nothing else. Explorer: Which way you face, the biome, the other side of a portal and your speed, for traveling far. Survival: Hostile mobs on the map, cave view, the light level and the time, for staying alive. Everything: Every line under the minimap, every mob and cave view.

## Your first minutes

* Walk around. The minimap fills in as you go, new ground fading in.
* Press M for the world map. Drag it, scroll to zoom, Space to find yourself.
* Press J to mark where you stand. Give it a name and **Save**.
* Press \[and \] to zoom the minimap, and hold Z to see it big.
* Type `/charted` for every command.

A setting made a screen hard to use? `/charted reset` puts every setting back to its default; `/charted reset minimap` only that tab.

## Next, you may want to

* [Bring your waypoints from another map modSwitching from another map mod](https://voxelsprout.com/charted/wiki/switching)
* [Mark a place to come back toWaypoints](https://voxelsprout.com/charted/wiki/waypoints)
* [Change a keyKeys and commands](https://voxelsprout.com/charted/wiki/keys-and-commands#change-a-key)

[Next The minimap](https://voxelsprout.com/charted/wiki/minimap)

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